Hello! Nice to find this forum on google when I search for OLPC forum!

I think, ultimately, MIT should host a forum themselves officially for the OLPC project. Without advertising, with contiuous status report, and invitations to developpers for joining in on the development of some of the open-source software and usb-accessories..

I also find some interesting links and articles at http://www.oneperchild.org/home/ .. are those just links to articles or also opinions from the webmaster of oneperchild.org?

I think it is great that Negroponte is revolutionizing the internet through a new laptop for the children in developping countries. I think this laptop will be usefull not only for them, but also for the adults in developping world and very fast it will spread to the developped world also. Nobody needs 3ghz noisy and big computers. Only profetionnals need such epensive power stations. The general public of the world needs just a terminal with multimedia power. And making it open-source and non-profit is evidently the way to do it. The world will profit.

The impact of the Green PC in Mankind will be larger than impact of cars, TV, flight, penicillin or whatever can you think of... Society will never be the same, for better or worse, after the Green PC, and as the bill says "IN GOD WE TRUST"

Basically Negroponte is ready for the Economics & Peace Nobel Prize.

The fact that this Forum exists, is a good sign of the openess of OLPC to discuss itÃƒâ€šÃ‚Â´s plans and ideas; however communication is a matter of two parties, and I hope OLPC experts, identify themselves and post replies and opinions about our posts. as all important organizations should do at their Internet Forums (or Forae?).

I am looking forward to the time when the OLPC team will post frequent video updates so everyone can see how far they are with their project. This should be as open as possible so as many people get interested in this project, the more governments will want to order their millions of units, the more philantropic organisations like Google or other will invest some billions in producing even more laptops and getting even more support locally to install the satellite internet connections where needed, the solar energy panels where needed, add refrigirator, water pump with the solar energy where needed, show the teachers some tricks of how to use those laptops, and all things that need to be taken care of in the right way to make sure this project is initiated the best way possible.